Improvement in cotton-bale ties



J. ADAMS.

V Cotton-Bale Ti es.

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JOSEPH ADAMS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF PART HIS INTEREST TO JAMES W. BROWNLEE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,848, dated October 13, 1574; application filed June 5, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH ADAMS, of New Orleans, Louisiana, have invented a Band- Union, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a new and useful band-union.

To enable those skilled in the arts to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and mode of operation in drawing annexed.

Figure 1, View of both ends of same band Fig. 2, edge View of the end of the band to which union is attached; Fig. 3, edge View of the band united; Fig. 4., view of union-piece.

A, one end of the band; B, the other end; 0, space punched from the band; D, portion of the band pressed from the band; E, opening cut in end B of band; F, union-piece- Like letters in each view refer to like parts.

The object of my invention is to provide a band-union of such a nature, having a connecting-piece attached to the band free to play in said band, without being riveted, and can- I not be detached from the band during transportation, and that will unite the ends of the bands without any aid from the material baled.

One end of the band is punched with openings E, of any length that may suit convenience. The other end has an opening, 0. A

portion of the band D, on one side of G, is pressed out, as in Fig. 2, forming the receptacle for the union-piece. A union-piece, F, Fig. 4, is cut from iron, having portions 0 0 cut from the sides. The piece formed is inserted, on its edge, into the opening formed by pressing D from the band. The piece is then turned; the portion D is pressed back in the plane of the band; and a portion of the piece F between 0 c is inserted in the opening 0. The union-piece is thus held in the band, free to play in the opening 0.

The operation of this tie is thus: End 13 is brought on end A; opening E placed over union-piece; union-piece is turned across the band, and unites the ends of the band, as Fig. 3.

This manner of attaching and keeping the unionpiece to the band may be applied for various other purposes. There maybe one or more union-pieces attached to the band.

Having described this my invention, I do. 

